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ppppenguin · 23rd Feb 2011, 3:21 pm

I suspectthat even if the Baird pictures had been excellent and the M-EMI ones mediocre, M-EMI would have won simply on production issues. Cueing the spotlight and IF studios was a nightmare, there was no possibility of multicamera work and reliability was even worse than M-EMI.

I'm pretty sure that the emitron cameras were cursed regularly by engineers and producers alike (I have seen early postwar documents in the BBC Archive where the acrimony is tangible) but that must have paled into insignificance compared to the trials and tribulations of spotlight and IF.

23rd Feb 2011, 3:21 pm	#4
ppppenguin Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: North London, UK. Posts: 6,168	Re: 240, 405 & 625 I suspectthat even if the Baird pictures had been excellent and the M-EMI ones mediocre, M-EMI would have won simply on production issues. Cueing the spotlight and IF studios was a nightmare, there was no possibility of multicamera work and reliability was even worse than M-EMI. I'm pretty sure that the emitron cameras were cursed regularly by engineers and producers alike (I have seen early postwar documents in the BBC Archive where the acrimony is tangible) but that must have paled into insignificance compared to the trials and tribulations of spotlight and IF.